organized by different people also this has been this the protests have not been contained to just more school it has been a russian white thing some two thousand people we know have been protesting in c. petersburg and in other russian cities as well we have. reports of arrests in some of those cities too mostly in the cities where locations like here in moscow. not approved by the authorities as well in moscow we saw some people being detained by the police to mostly those who were trying to block the streets. this weekend to get on account of historians saturday marks the two hundredth birthday of pioneering german philosopher karl marx people across the world been celebrating and debating to the legacy of his works which portrayed capitalism as an exploitative an unsustainable system our europe correspondent peter all over explores why it is that the iconic think is still captures the imagination of so many to this day. germany is commemorating one of its most famous and controversial

think it is such a day as the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the author of the communist manifesto karl marx to say that his ideas of class struggle and the overthrow of the ruling classes by the workers were hundred maint divisive here well that is beyond understatement marx's ideas were literally at the root of the ideological division between east and west germany post world war two but that's not stopping his place of birth tree in the south west from hosting a series of events to mark his big birthday bash.

it surprised many when it was announced that the guest of honor at the big party in trio would be shown claude younker the e.u. commission president hardly has proletariats credentials in fact the former prime minister of luxembourg has been accused in the past of exuding the worst excesses of the bush was he so perhaps mr younger has been a closeted calm rate of marx all these years marxist con marx is not responsible for all the atrocities carried out by his followers his writings does capital and the communist manifesto change the world as we know it so marx's name and image has appeared all over the place from a major street here in the german capital to this t. shirt you can even save your capitalist penny inside the head of one of communisms founding think is a marxist also appeared in more than east. share of t.v.

shows and advertisements as well. oh come the bad sweetie at dad. mars scientists are calling the list. the ideas put forward by moxie alongside frederick angles haven't been consigned to

the nineteenth hole for that matter the twentieth centuries a recent poll of people from twenty eight different nations showed that hall for them said to get a better society we should follow socialist ideals however it is worth noting that in the same poll around the same number said that political system is based on the writings of these two were far more likely to be oppressive i asked the people of what they thought those mosques have a place in today's society and politics so when it comes to politics like maybe you use it to get votes but it's now very early like that ideology and it has never been practiced so it doesn't exist and not only like about. economic inequalities but also other types of inequalities that could be used like they could use marxist theory to to be examined in today's culture capitalism. seal's labor from people from the workers. from from our point of

view. it's still important to you that my dear is good but it's night is a utopia in reality things and differently at marx's funeral in london in one thousand eight hundred three angles said his friend the greatest living thinker has ceased to think well that may well have been but two hundred years after his birth the ideas put forward by marx continue to inspire others to think peter all of our people and we heard from the philosopher and cultural critics of dziedzic about how cull moxon his works are understood of the modern world as we all heroes here almost this fame is very ambiguous you become a cult figure a week means people don't really starve you don't really review and so on and so on marx to prevent him as an ideal not only doesn't take marx seriously but also avoid

confronting what these problematic in marx his description of the movement of a global coffee over the growing between the poor and buried and so on and so on we do very actually but the context is totally different he was. right in the wrong way marx obviously didn't have a well elaborate date field of state power he thought state is such a sect just a second diety superstructure thinks really happened in economy already in the soviet union it was proven that things don't work like this state place a much stronger so different stuff today. to be a critical marxist to focus on problems which were to neglect that by marx like their own state power economy itself. quick break next time more of the weekend's news here the international activists in scotland have been calling for

a second referendum on independence on munching on mass to we'll tell you about that when we come back it's. what politicians do sometimes. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. and somehow want to. be press this is what the. three of them will be good. i'm interested always in the water. the global economy is so tightly wound that these sanctions don't work because the supply chains are completely overlapping and what is sanction in one country drives economic problems in another country that you're not trying to suffer get sanctions

to spell longer walkable than the global economy has to integrate. its two. interdependent. people to the streets. demanding a second referendum on scottish independence from the u.k. . i. was led by

a movement called. the similar event seems wrote eighty thousand people showed up this time which is twice the number that the organizers were expecting i can september twenty fourth you may recall scotland voted to remain in the united kingdom but then the better together campaign winning by fifty five percent to forty five according to jonathan shafi from the radical independents combine support for independents has risen dramatically since then. what's fascinating about steve's demonstration. by. the style bush. was. something that few minutes used to link the big. the school does the gabbert to march through the day so that tells you something that gives you an indication of the feeling in the country not only for another effort in them and making their support for another referendum but actually being will you be willing to teach the

streets to make their point to reduce their voices in favor of referendum i think it's safe enough to change the saying of things to come. bills in the state of illinois might soon have to change their curriculums to teach more about the contributions made by the communities in american history of what's of which has been a lot the it work of the figures will be given more focus in subjects ranging from science to sport of the new plan comes through it's been sped by california they made a similar move last year somebody got through in inner noid the bill still has to be given the go ahead by the states house of representatives but it's already got people talking a plenty about it it will promote acceptance and a more accurate portrayal of history. it is in direct contradiction to the clear judeo christian beliefs of many in illinois generated a lively debate in the studio to we voted media commentator gina lowden and human rights activist peta touch chilled to offer their views it's very important people understand the contribution that gay people have made i think it's about informing

straight kids so they understand l g b t issues. their prejudice is broken down if a history book or any book whatever write about me personally i wouldn't want them to leave with my religious background my ethnicity and certainly not my sexual orientation fantastic extraordinary people from tchaikovsky to richard the lionhearted their gayness or their bisexuality is not the major factor but it's just about acknowledging that l.g. people have existed throughout history and have made a very important contribution to the sciences the arts sport and culture well i think in an effort perhaps to be inclusive we've made a mistake in this estimation if you will and what's happened is that a lot of groups have been taken advantage of by politicians who are willing to prey on people based on those identities i think that you know identity politics has

been a response to exclusion because of decades of exclusion and marginalization some communities of how to organize it hasn't worked and what it's done instead is it's divided us up into little groups that then can be taken advantage of by politicians gene is right we don't want to be typecast about the fact that we're jewish or gay or black those are just one aspects of who we are but in some cases those are the aspects of who we are which other people target for hatred and discrimination my concern begins and ends where government gets involved in deciding who is relevant who is not relevant who is more relevant and divide then. hiding us into little groups because when government has enough power to do that they also have enough power to take that away. the rest of the tourist drug lord a decade ago was heralded back then as a devastating blow to the taliban and narcotics trafficking in afghanistan but now

that very same month it seems quietly walked free from american prison pelham opens but looking at the possible reasons behind his release here at this correctional facility in manhattan you've got some very dangerous criminals you've got the mexican drug kingpin knocking el chapo guzman furthermore you've got the terrorist suspected of driving his truck into pedestrians here in manhattan back in two thousand and seventeen but one rather famous inmate the afghan drug lord haji juma khan recently checked out and no one knows why khan was first arrested back in two thousand and one as the usa began its operations in afghanistan however he was almost immediately released and from there he went on to set up a criminal empire known as the khan organization he was watched very closely by the u.s. drug enforcement agency the khan organization arranged to sell more than base nuke them durable to that can be processed into heroin wanted to says launches for two tons enough to supply the entire united states heroin market for more than to use

now it's also important to note that in afghanistan he became friends with the d.e.a.'s top man in kabul he described their friendship is crucial in getting information he was a major player in the global herin trade and the ring was the consul for the supply of money from king pins like him to the taliban and terrorists such as oh kind he was an unofficial spiny and he gave us useful information that we passed on to the military at one point in two thousand and six the da chief in kabul got so close to his drug lord buddy that he was worried he may have cancer he arranged a trip for him to the united states in order to get treatment one day i know it is they did. growth on his chest i thought it might be cancerous as i previously had a melanoma cuts out and showed him my scones i offered him treatments in d.c. and we went well that was a false alarm i was hoping friend but also it was way of building trust the friendship soured in two thousand and eight when he was learned to indonesia

arrested by interpol and then extradited to new york city once he was locked up pending trial for the da then publicly linked him to terrorists proceeds from hundreds of mcconnell global drug trafficking organization funded the terrorist activities of the taliban he's arrest significant line of credit to the taliban that will signify of his drug network that has moved message quantities of harim to worldwide drug markets ever since that time everything related to khan's case has been completely sealed in two thousand and ten the new york times wrote about his long standing friendship with both the da and the cia prior to capture at the time neither agency would confirm or deny it unlike his lawyer several law enforcement agencies from the united states approaching people in afghanistan including mr khan and requesting assistance and assigned to stand it payments made services requests from my client and others but now come as free no criminal charges no trial and no

explanation why now at this point perhaps we can assume that the law enforcement agencies know what's best for the public and just don't feel a need to share their secret collaboration with the worst of the underworld kept secret so you can sleep better at night. r.t. new york or to try and get a bit more clarity we did request cohen from the us federal bureau of prisons concerning comes release them go back to us yet if we do they'll let you know. folks watching on kevin over here moscow but with more from the newsroom in half an hour as our team continues to bring you the headlines throughout the night and our programs continue after the break.

thank. you. in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox swiss customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they impose the opening times. it is for us the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like they can so and modigliani i can't boards and sold inside this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers up deals which are naturally discreet commercially

discreet but also discreet thinkers they concern fraud. some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport system and you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world like the art business. yes i can do you know americans in america covering american news are called for. by the end of this segment you will realize the stock market is a complete fraud but it's not all bad news by the end of the segment you'll also know a great new recipe for

a coke and carrot cake so let's get started shall we the stock market the heart beat of the american economy the lifeblood of our entire system good tested thing is over desecration of the planet the. stock market has gotten so big that it is now worth thirty trillion dollars wow that's a lot of money and well am i being condescending right hour was. well it's time to throw in some condescending images as well when you picture a stock when you bridget like you like buying a stock in a company what do you picture you probably imagine a company like pepsi co and you are in bed this is what i see in my head and you are. and you are an investor is so you buy a share you buy a piece of the company right you know. you own a piece of the company and you get

a proportion of the profits which are called dividends it's a messy but fair process. let's say you purchase stock in a company that manufactures a new type of razor scooter that also doubles as a colon osprey machine or whatever the better what it is you know while you're on the scooter it does the call and asked me by surprise. anyway you know this device is revolutionary so you buy a share in the company hoping to get some of those profits well that's not what a stock is. not at all that that's what he stuck used to be but that was back when men used to wear top pads and if a lady showed her knees in public she was a fruity who should die alone. nowadays you almost never receive the profits of the business and the company is not obligated to pay you anything for your stock however here's an example the example of google according to tellen lose book the ponzi fact assured google kids rate around nine hundred dollars but google

explicitly states in writing that the poor value of their stock is only point zero zero one dollars google also says they do not pay their investors any dividends and their classy shareholders have no voting rights so if you own or share of googe you do you will receive any money from google you won't be allowed to vote on corporate issues and google isn't obligated to pay you anything more than point zero zero one dollars for the share you bought for nine hundred dollars so what the fuck do you won't. do nothing it is nothing you own a slip of toilet paper that you might be able to trick someone else into paying you for. so then where are the profits come from like if you buy google in twenty dollars and you sell it to one hundred twenty where did the two hundred dollars come from it came from other investors who were willing to buy the stock as tom lew

puts the investors are just cannibalizing each other for profits and there are fees attached to every transaction. cannibalizing each other for profits. now this is starting to sound like an american enterprise. because this is all american activity fighter on the flag america cannibalizing each other for profits and seventeen's of the. world like you've made. the money you make from most stocks if you make money is coming from other investors pumping new money in and if there if there are new investors willing to buy the stock then you're just you're just standing there with your thumb up you said six we could pause for a second why is standing there with your thumb up your right and expression. and the other one the kind of means the same as standing there with your hand right . they both mean you've got nothing going on. you just stand there with your thumb

up your ass and you. put that doesn't sell like nothing you know that. that sounds like a big night if you're into that kind of say. and it sounds like a terrible night if you're not into that because. bloodied certainly doesn't sound like nothing. we're for you. you only you only make money if new investors want to buy the stock from you otherwise you're screwed why does that sound familiar that that that set up sound oh i know it's the exact definition of a ponzi scheme our stock market. these big. securities and exchange commission defines a ponzi scheme as an investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors. but really

ponzi schemes usually involve lying to the investor which is also what goes on with wall street most investors don't understand that they own literally nothing they don't know that they are simply gambling and they don't know that their profit relies on everyone still believing this stupid fraud is real boy where do i sign up. this means the only way to get your money back or to profit is to find another chump willing to buy it now don't get me wrong your argument may be this is america there's always another job we are based on a long time honored tradition of never running out of jumps or. we're lousy with chumps that's a fair point but i don't think you see anyone proudly touting that as the definition of the stock market i would actually respect that i would if it were right there on the front of the stock exchange just said put your money into stock

market the only way you going to make money is if you find a. job i would never stocks you just bought but there are new food a number of. this gravy train is powered by morons so you got another to worry about. if it said that i'd be all and i would have to work. with the guy. that our dog market is a house of cards built on idiocies stacked on spiderwebs hanging tenuously from the hindu berg is actually kind of a big deal you know think about this as of september twenty seventeen the nasdaq in the new york stock exchange had a combined value of over authority trillion dollars this means investors believe they are entitled to thirty trillion dollars in real money with only one point six trillion dollars of cash circulating in the u.s. economy and three point eight trillion in. existence in the entire u.s.

economic system only three point eight trillion in hard cash which means the stock market is built mostly on nothing like jared questioner it's built on nothing the stock market is a ponzi scheme a fraud a scam a shakedown a ripoff a flim flam all right. let's look at an example tesla here's a chart of tesla stock price from twenty ten to twenty seventeen it went from twenty dollars a share to three hundred eighty dollars a share if you bought a bunch in two thousand and ten you're probably very rich right now so where did all that money come from did it come from tesla's profits did you get a letter in the mail it's a dirty we just sold a car here's two dollars and seventy five cents from that car no no you didn't get the letter because actually it's test the last two billion dollars in twenty seven teams over the entire period of this chart they lost four point three billion

dollars so then where in god's name is all that money coming from the money is coming from other people gambling on the idea that that number will keep going up and look. i don't have any problem gambling if you want to gamble at a casino you can we. stay up all night until you're on your last two dollars trying to give you a slot machine and hold it just might pay out afterwards go for it have a ball but the casinos are honest with you that it's gambling the front of the casino doesn't say invest your pension in roulette. do you have a kid with a degenerative disease then put all your savings on red thirty two so he'll be taken care of when you're gone. now don't say that the stock market does and some people may think that if it were ripped truly gambling that would mean it's not predictable yet finance professionals claim they know how to analyze and

predict the market so you put your money in their hands sale grow your money well multiple tests have been done to see whether the professionals know how to predict the market one contest was between amateurs students finance professionals and the cats. who did all those investing by tossing his favorite mouse toy on an electric grid electronic grid orlando the cat one look ok a good kid is a buddy's game you say it's a racket but god actually. was. ok and many fakes many cities gambling is illegal they'll send in armed forces to break up poker games right you got to get a permit for a raffle you gotta go talk to a guy about a big old game but when a sociopath in chicago bets your entire pension and loses no swat team no arrests

because it's a legalized ponzi scheme and by the way these ideas are not allowed on your corporate media your financial shows your financial web sites the almighty stock market. does not permit even the slightest doubt to creep in tom lew the author i've been speaking about has tried to put his ideas on popular finance blogs and web forums and they are often you deleted or he's banned completely from the site they act like you know he just showed up to a scientology web forum and wrote you know tom cruise is a freak right he's done he's done to tell you messiah these actors are weird oh oh oh right and mr pitt i'm possible is overrated. it's tough to overstate the impact this convoy has on our world and our lives not just when people lose their pensions but when the news came out that north korea had brokered peace with south korea the stocks of the major weapons contractors tanked billions of dollars.

really was rock now that exerts exerts major pressure on powerful people to make sure peace does not happen and that's just one example of how strong the gravity of this ponzi scheme is there are steps we could take to make the stock market less exploitative we we we could stop speaking about stocks as if they are money you know stop saying you have a thousand dollars of apple shares and instead say you got a thousand put doodles of apple shares or whatever then when you sell them then you have a thousand dollars step two is realizing that the market economy in general is designed to exploit billions of us while a tiny number get ridiculously rich just as jeff bezos he's now worth all high.